Jacek Chrostowski, Ph.D., P. Eng., FEIC

Co-founder and President

Jacek has over 30 years experience in various aspects of technology. He is co-founder and President  of Scheelite Technologies, LLC, a Nevada  company working on alternative power for wireless networks. Previously, Jacek was Vice-president Technology Strategy at Emcore Co.. From 1998 to 2003 his work at Cisco Systems included Technology Deputy, Optics in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer, and member of the University Research Board.  He serves on the Advisory Board of Signal Lake Venture Capital. Previous to that he had a distinguished career at the National Research Council of Canada, working over the years on optoelectronics, all-optical networks and their  applications. He was awarded 7 US patents and co-edited 3 books. He has served on US NSF, US Congress, NSERC,  European Community and a number of  industrial Advisory Boards. He was Technical Editor of IEEE Communication Magazine. He has M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering and PhD in Physics from Warsaw University of Technology.

Tom Newton

Head of Global Partnerships

Having worked in the technology space for over 30 years Tom has lead the sales efforts of Software Companies resulting in Sales Growth from      0 – $3,000,000 ARR in 4 years while Partnering with the largest Cloud Software Companies. After a successful exit with Simba Technologies, Tom realized the traditional model of resellers and separate inside sales teams that compete with each other was not working. This resulted in the creation of Peer2Peer Partners Consulting Firm and the development of the proprietary Partner Co-Sell Enablement Program. Implementation of Training and Tools for Sales Reps that Co-Sell with your Partner Reps, such as Playbooks and AI-based Co-Selling Platforms resulted in 80%+increase in Leads from Partners, 60%+ Pipeline ARR and a huge pop in REP TO REP engagement.

Gary Strachan, S.M.

Chief Scientist, Precision Agriculture

Gary graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in Dairy Science and obtained his MSc in toxicology from the Massachusetts University of Technology. He had a distinguished career as a scientist in Agriculture Canada in charge of wine-related research. He served as Canadian delegate to l’Office Internationale de la Vigne et du Vin. (O.I.V). As a technical consultant, Gary assisted in the design, costing, and establishment of scores of wineries and vineyards in British Columbia and Washington State. He served as Chair of the Sustainable Practices Committee in the British Columbia Wine Grape Council.

Ashley Freeman

Director, Operations

Ashley Freeman is an internationally recognized expert in precision agriculture, in particular in cherry orchards and vineyards operations, business development and IoT technologies for agriculture. He travels frequently to Yunnan Province, China to advise cherry growers and government agricultural departments there. After farming in South Africa on two parcels of over 250 hectares in diverse farming for over a decade, he immigrated to Canada in 2007. He pioneered a unique planting style for the Canadian cherry industry. He covers a broad range of technologies and business opportunities, starting from the ground up, to the premium carton on the export market, or the vintage of wine sought after by the discerning pallet.

Edward Frietman, Dr. Ir.

Director, European Operations

Edward is an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and currently a member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Modeling, Simulation and Scientific Computing published by World Scientific Publishing Co. His main areas of scientific activity have been focussed on opto-electronic processing & Networking, resulting in patents regarding a new generation of opto- electronic devices that can be exploited in Cloud computing and World Wide Web applications. Over the last years, Dr. Frietman has divided his time between Malaysia, Canada and Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, most recently as adjunct professor at California State University, exploring microelectronics industry processes and its uses in new applications. His Ir. completion in Electrical engineering and electronics and his doctorate in Computer Science were both obtained at Delft University of Technology at Delft, the Netherlands.

Killian Dill, Ph.D.

Kilian obtained PhD in biophysical chemistry from California Institute of Technology. Over the years, he has had a distinguished career as a scientist in academia, US government, and industry. He was a tenured professor at Crimson University and has served as a consultant to the US Environmental Protection Agency and US Army Medical Research Development Command. He worked on multiple projects in the industry, including companies such as Antara Bioscience, Protein Discovery, CombiMatrix Corp., Molecular Devices and Pinpoint Science. Most recently, he served as Vice-President of Biochemistry at Multerra Bio in San Francisco. He published over 120 refereed publications and has numerous US patents in biochemistry.

Mark Milinkovich

Lukas Chrostowski, Ph.D., P. Eng.

Lukas Chrostowski is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. He earned a B.Eng. from McGill University and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests are in nanotechnology, silicon photonics, optoelectronics, fabrication and test for applications in optical communications and biophotonics. He co-authored the book “Silicon Photonics Design”. Dr. Chrostowski served as the co-director of the University of British Columbia AMPEL Nanofabrication Facility between 2008 and 2017. Currently he is the Program Director the Silicon Electronic-Photonic Integrated Circuits (Si-EPIC) Industry/Government program in Canada. He was on the IEEE Photonics 2014-2016 Society Board of Governors and was elected to the College of the Royal Society of Canada in 2019.

Francis Nedvidek, Ph.D., P. Eng.

Developing & launching innovative technologies and business models in global markets.
Francis Nedvidek is a consummate Marketing, Sales, Business Development and Innovation catalyst, enabler and champion with substantial international residency. He his 20-years of experience covers the application of diverse electro-optical-mechanical-software-materials technologies (for example – LIDAR, multi-wavelength imaging and recognition, analog and digital sensors, machine vision, nanomaterials, data networking and IoT. He has worked in markets spanning Manufacturing Automation, Microelectronics devices and applications, Telecommunications, Medical Equipment, Plastics and Metrology.
Possessing a track record spanning C-Levels in $600 million divisions of multinationals (Raytheon, Leica, Black & Decker, Von Roll) to founder, VP and CEO positions for start-ups and nascent enterprises (Resonance Photonics Inc, Cube Optics AG, NanoXplore Inc.) achieving up to US$60 million exit valuations as well as a TSX Venture IPO.)
Francis Nedvidek empowers collaborative and multi-disciplined teams – bridging countries and cultures – to commercializes winning innovations and achieve faster time-to-market, shorter product cycle times and expand market share and geographic footprint. He has repeatedly and successfully deployed innovative technologies and novel business models and led change through orchestrating executing strategic partnerships and joint-ventures / M&A transactions (exceeding $200 million) enhancing value and accelerating top line and bottom line growth.